A full-page advertisement in today's News & Record paid for by backers of Greensboro lawyer Manlin Chee claims the criminal case against her sends a "threatening message" to other defenders of immigrants...

The ad also asserts that the government was suspicious of Chee because she had a large number of Muslim and Middle Eastern clients with whom she showed "solidarity" by wearing Muslim dress to work one day a week...

Chee pleaded guilty in November to federal charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by submitting false paperwork on behalf of immigrant clients. She admitted to arranging a sham marriage so one client could remain in the country and falsely depicting another in legal paperwork as a homosexual who would be persecuted if sent back to Egypt...

I'm as opposed to government overreach as anyone, but in the case of immigration lawyers... Chee's viewpoint of this matter is amply demonstrated in the messages here.